UK Jazz News

November 10, 2024

(1926 - 2024)

Alto saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Lou Donaldson has passed away at the age of 98. Sharing the news on Facebook earlier today, Champian Fulton wrote: “Dear friends, I’m so sorry to share that our friend, hero, and Jazz legend [...]

The Future is Fusion

Sitarist Tommy Khosla formed JAWARI a couple of years ago. Since then, this multinational, multi-stylistic group has been establishing an audience drawn from different communities ethnically, culturally and musically. Defining the group’s music is not easy, though the influences of [...]

We Will Meet Again, Sometime is the third album of original material that Irish pianist John Donegan has written for his sextet, after Shadows Linger (2022) and Light Streams (2023). Completing the sextet are brothers Michael Buckley (alto and soprano [...]

There’s a poignancy as well as a delight in hearing this third album by Kent-based pianist-composer Ray Guntrip and the late singer Tina May. No-one was to know in August 2021 that this would be Tina’s final recording session and [...]

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